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By adamg on Tue, 11/05/2013 - 6:33am
The line at Brendan Cahill's South Boston polling place at 7 a.m.
Polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. (but if you're interested in telephone-type polls, here's a blending of them).
As you vote, what are you seeing at the polling places? Check in below.
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Holy Name rotary, West Roxbury, 7:15 a.m.
The rotary itself is full of Walsh human billboards. Wonder what the Connolly equivalent in Dorchester would be?
Jennifer Potter tweets:
Up at Holy Name School, the oddest of sites early on an election day: No candidates! Just your basic campaign volunteers, only a couple of whom pretended like there's no law against standing right in front of a polling-place entrance.
The'll be out
yelling at old lady's all day.
Crowded sidewalks in Readville
Jacob Sconyers tweets at 7:55 a.m.:
On the one hand...
...I feel bad for Jacob, but on the other, I have to wonder - did he tell the jackasses to "move aside for the guy on crutches!" - or did he just swallow his ire and wait to passive-aggressively spit it back up on social media? There's something to be said for a good old-fashion yankee shaming in situations like these.
My spouse and I not only tell election-bozos to clear off the middle of sidewalks and back away from polling entrances - if needed we ask the police officer inside to go re-educate them about the law. Electioneering laws were passed for a reason.
Heavy turnout in East Boston
Tech Ling reported a "huge crowd" at her polling place in East Boston - where voters also get to vote in a referendum on a casino at Suffolk Downs.
Dara Continenza reports:
no line in Charlestown
no line in Charlestown precinct 2 at 7:30 am.
Walsh goon @ Forest Hills
With brochures. On Election Day. No other political types around.
Like Walsh needs more votes. His thugs have sealed the election with outoftown unionists and outoftown big money...dark, dark money.
Too bad Connolly wasn't a more compelling candidate...
yes, this IS offtopic
Because someone was trying to hand you a brochure
that makes them a goon?
Do you happen to own a mirror? BUY ONE!
Feh
No lines at the Jackson-Mann School in Allston (of course.) I was voter #5 at my precinct at 7:30 AM.
Boston City Hall
15 people in line right at 7, but it was down to 1 by 7:05.
Voter #59 checking in from Medford
No line, no wait at the firehouse in West Medford this morning around 8am. Six school board seats, all unopposed, yet nearly all of them had supporters with signs outside. Why?
While Boston might be getting a new mayor, Medford is taking the tried and true approach. The city council race was heated -- thirteen people running and each voter can only choose seven. I had gone to most of their websites in the past few week and was disappointed in the lack of substance outside of the number of years they had lived in the town. Without real issues to decide I went with the people who were geographically closest to me and who my neighbors supported via yard signs.
City Hall
Linehan was at City Hall handing out stickers.
Slow turnout so far
Slow turnout so far in my district in Roxbury. I was #44 in my precinct at 8:44am. Anecdotally, I overheard a Connolly worker talking to a Walsh guy. Both commented that my polling place was pretty slow. The Connolly guy said that he had just come from Blue Hill Ave and that "it was like Christmas over there" and he hopes it stays that way.
Sign holding union folk.
I have this suspicion that there will be less unionized work happening in the city today with all of this sign holding.
Question: which class of union folk are doing more sign holding: the Boston-residents (who have an obvious interest in the election) or the non-Boston residents (who have a less obvious interest in the election - namely, that they might be working less in Boston if each of the candidates enforce the Boston-jobs-for-Boston residents thing). An interesting conundrum for the non-Boston union folk, eh?
Also, I love the post from Jackson-Mann in Allston. Need we say anything more about why A-B gets treated the way it does?
I am hearing that a relative
I am hearing that a relative of a mayoral canidate is getting a little aggressive and warning had to be given out by police in hyde park
Or more specifically
John Connolly's aunt at Blake Estates.
Eugene Rivers votes!
The Globe's Adrian Walker provides the proof that the good reverend won't get called out as a hypocrite again.
Brighton Ward 22
I love voting here. Never any lines.
Thanks apathetic college kids and young professionals! You make it so I can vote before work w/o being late.
There was a line at Honan
There was a line at Honan-Allston when I got there at 7 a.m.
Low turnout in one Roxbury precinct
Around 10 a.m., Asma Khalid tweeted:
Brighton Ward 21
A whopping 2 person line at 7:30 this morning. Better than no line?
They're working on the ground game in my parts
I did a stroll around my precinct (using, of course, the precinct maps the BRA has made available) and saw 6 people going door to door. The first 5 were Walsh folk, and the sixth was for Connolly. Talked to a Walsh and the Connolly one. I know they are probably annoying some people, but it is I pressive to see that level of organization. I had to give the thumbs up to both, though one was disappointed by my choice.
I heard a lecture by Dukakis recently. He said that this is the way to campaign, though he said one person per precinct.
Walsh is working the phones
The Walsh campaign has me down as a pro-Marty voter (although anti-Connolly would technically be more accurate). So far today I've gotten 3 phone calls and an e-mail reminding me to vote. Haven't heard from Connolly's people although they may have ID'd me as not on their side. The primaries showed that Walsh knows how to get out the vote, and it looks like they are doing it again today. It could be Walsh's night tonight.
Charlestown - Zelma Lacey
No line at 5PM.